Restaurant Week has a Michelin-starred table: subtract the normal price first

The booking window for the Nationale Restaurant Week runs from 1 September to 30 September 2026, dates the site's own booking widget carries. The line at the top of the home page reads 'voordelig luxe dineren voor maar 29,95'. A banner slightly further down the same page reads 'vanaf €34,95'. Five euro apart, on one screen. Pull up the restaurant listing for 1 September and count the 28 menu prices visible on the first page: the lowest is 28,50 euro, the highest 119,50 euro, and the middle of them sits at 47,50 euro. Four come in under 35 euro. Not one is 29,95. source 1, source 2

None of that makes the week a bad booking. It makes it something other than a fixed-price event. It behaves like a reservation platform: each restaurant sets its own menu price for the season, and 29,95 euro is the advertised floor rather than the price you will pay. The home page also says 501 top restaurants take part, while the listing page for 1 September reports 432 — the number taking part and the number bookable on any given date are different figures, worth noting when you pick your evening. The site's own FAQ adds that drinks are generally not in the menu price, and that only some restaurants offer an all-in arrangement stating which drinks are included.

So the sum worth doing is not how deep the discount runs. It is this one: take the Restaurant Week menu price at the place you actually want to go, and subtract what three courses normally cost at that same place. Only you can do that subtraction, because only you know what you would have ordered and whether wine was coming. A positive difference is a real saving. A difference near zero means you have bought an evening with no menu decisions rather than a discount. Add two drinks a head to the estimate and at plenty of addresses the difference turns over. The list does hold places worth the trip: Tante Koosje at Loenen aan de Vecht sits on the 1 September listing with a Michelin marker beside its name. Even there the work is the same subtraction. The site lists each restaurant's menu price and never once sets it against that restaurant's ordinary price — that step is yours.

• Booking window: 1 September to 30 September 2026.
• The home page headline reads 29,95 euro; a banner on the same page reads from 34,95 euro.
• The 28 prices visible on the 1 September listing run 28,50 to 119,50 euro, median 47,50 euro.
• None of those 28 is 29,95 euro, and only four come in under 35 euro.
• The home page claims 501 participating restaurants; the 1 September listing reports 432.
• Drinks are normally extra; only some restaurants offer a stated all-in arrangement.

Hokimi field note: open that restaurant's ordinary menu first, because its everyday three-course price is your only real baseline.

When

1 September to 30 September 2026, per the dates carried by the site's own booking module.

Prices

Home page headline 29,95 euro, banner from 34,95 euro; the 28 menu prices visible on the 1 September listing page run 28,50 to 119,50 euro, median 47,50 euro.

Scale

Home page states 501 participating restaurants; the 1 September listing page reports 432.

Drinks

The site's FAQ states some restaurants offer an all-in arrangement and name the drinks included; otherwise drinks are extra.

Note

This is a booking platform rather than a fixed-price event and each restaurant sets its own menu price; figures read on 31 August 2026.